Special to WorldTribune.com There’s a certain entity within the Pentagon that’s quite (in)famous for developing terrifying robots, advanced weapons and futuristic tech. It’s called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or, as most people know it, DARPA: the Department of Defense’s “mad science” division. While all the machines coming out of the agency make it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The latest offensive against China launched by Hanoi has generated more Chinese media coverage than Vietnam’s naval clashes with Chinese maritime forces in the South China Sea. That’s because the new offensive is a unique kind of soft power — beautiful Vietnamese women wearing traditional attire printed with maps of Vietnamese islands […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Miles Yu, Washington Times Monday marked the 77th anniversary of the beginning of all-out war between China and Japan, and Chinese leaders spared no effort to use the occasion to carry out a choreographed anti-Japan propaganda campaign.The campaign backfired, however, producing profound embarrassments. The entire Chinese Communist Party leadership took part in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Senior Obama administration officials briefed members of Congress on the drive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to seize control of Iraq. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined for senators the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gordon S Chang, LIGNET.com The Obama Administration’s focus on “engagement” has failed to deter an increasingly belligerent China, as Beijing’s top party leaders pay more attention to their increasingly powerful, but divided military. Secretary of State John F. Kerry will be the latest American diplomat to try to talk China out of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com James S. Robbins In early 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama was pushing a plan to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq and abort the “surge” strategy that had yet to take hold and end the raging sectarian struggle. President George W. Bush believed that a precipitate U.S. troop pullout would lead to increased […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Miles Yu, Inside China, Washington Times For the first time in its 43-year history, the world’s largest multinational naval exercise, Rim of the Pacific exercise, or RIMPAC, hosted by the U.S. Navy on a biennial basis, has invited the Chinese navy to participate. … Chinese state media is having a field day […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The ouster of retired People’s Liberation Army Gen. Xu Caihou from the Communist Party of China this week represents a major political blow to China’s all-powerful military. For a decade, Gen. Xu was the most powerful man in uniform in China as the vice chairman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon President Barack Obama has authorized targeted killings of the leaders of the Al Qaida offshoot led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi using drone strikes or special operations, as the Iraqi terrorist on Tuesday urged jihadists to conduct worldwide attacks. A U.S. official familiar with internal Obama administration […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The U.S. military’s largest international naval exercise in the Pacific begins this week with China’s navy taking part for the first time by sending four warships—more than any participating nation other than the United States. A total of 49 surface ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft, […]